Here is the article for Austin plastic surgeon sucks out own fat (Senseless registration required ;-(. I lived in Austin for a while so I can confirm that they can be quite weird like this at times. Apparently, at least in part, he was raising awareness to the stem cells contained in the fatty tissue and that they can be easily harvested. For myself I’m not a big fan of liposuction or other related plastic surgery but to help reverse the effects of my MS I’d be more than happy to have my fat sucked out. In fact in anticipation of them doing this someday I should quit losing weight and eating healthy (well I guess I don’t eat that healthy but at least cut out the veggies 😉 so they have plenty of fat to pull from. 😉 J/K